On their info sheet is a place for ISRC codes. I had seen that acronym before when uploading other songs to Tunecore, but successfully ignored it.

At first I thought this was a special tone encoded into a master that let Arbitron, Soundscan and all the world know who’s song they were hearing, but I guess this isn’t the case. But it kind of is???

It sounds like the usisrc.org website is saying that you can digitally attach it to your master so that it is easier to collect royalties. Yet, over at Johnvestman.com, they are saying you use it so you can get paid for digital music sales, but it’s for documentation purposes only.

SO! While I am still confused as to exactly what an ISRC code is and what it helps you accomplish, I dropped the $75 to apply for codes. This was approved, and I excitedly logged back into usisrc.org to finally figure out what all this meant and apply our new ISRC codes to our new songs.

I read all about the country code, registrant code, and how to assign the rest of the digits. I created a database and figured that I should go back and assign codes to songs we have already released. Now I was finally ready to officially assign these codes on the usisrc.org website.

BUT!!! It seems you don’t actually, officially assign anything. I was so disappointed.

Now, I assume that documenting the code you assign to each song when uploading to your digital distributer AND probably assigning the code in ASCAP or whoever you use for royalty collection is where the deed gets done. Somehow. But since I can’t find my ASCAP member code, I can log in to read what they have to say about it. Maybe I’ll find out in a week when we upload our songs to Tunecore or whoever we decided to use this time.

If anyone has some tasty info regarding ISRC codes, I would love to hear it!!

Thanks!
Tony Coke

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See how many things you can find wrong with this Xmas video and comment.
For starters, it is in the style of a 1940′s Bing Crosby or Nat King Cole song with a 1970′s style video.
Then Tony Coke drops his cookie in his milk at the very beginning.
Is that a violin he’s playing when there is a clarinet in the song??
It looks like Santa Claus has a penis!!! Hoe Hoe Hoe. Meatpie is Santa by the way.

We at Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs like making special holiday videos for our fans. Sometimes we go by the name “The Dead 20′s”, which is our alter ego tribute to old style music and videos. Stay tuned because we will be releasing a Hawaiian Christmas song and video in the next week or two.

Funny Christmas Songs – “Sometimes Santa Is Slow” by Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs. In the style of Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole.

Lyrics:
Santa: What would you like from Santa?
Child 1: I want a pony!
Santa: What would you name him?
Child 1: I would name him Tony.

Narrator: Sometimes Santa is slow. Once his list got lost in the snow. Even if you don’t get what you want this year, some day you’ll get your pony, my dear.

Santa: What would you like from Santa?
Child 2: I want a tractor.
Santa: And how would you use it?
Child 2: I would mow the pasture.

Narrator: Sometimes Santa is late. Good things come to children who wait. Even if you don’t get what you want this year, some day you’ll get your tractor, my dear.

Santa: What would you like from Santa?
Children: We want a guitar.
Santa: And how would you use it?
Children: We’d play it like a rockstar!

Narrator: Sometimes Santa is late. The presents won’t all fit in the sleigh. Even if you don’t get what you want this year, some day you’ll get your guitar, my dear.

Narrator: Even if you don’t get what you want this year,
All: Someday you’ll get your presents, my dear!

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For our 817 family, we are playing at Lola’s tomorrow night.
Doors at 9, we play at 10:20.
Here Holy Spain is also playing, I hear they are doing big things.

And my favorite

New music coming at ya soon!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, for real. It’s just gotta get mastered then it’s ready to go.

Now, thanks to advancements in technology and greater tools for people to organise into
tribes, Indie bands and artists are in a great place to have their art reach
out further and further. One of these new advancements has brought to the world
the iPad and the app known as Aweditorium – aural happiness. It’s a music
discovery app similar to Bingo HQ a discovery service for the bingo
industry.

Aweditorium is a magical app and helps you discover new indie artists like no other service
available today. All artists are presented in a grid format with just a photo
of the group or solo artist. You navigate through the grid by using your hand
as you fly through the grid discovering bands and artist you surely hadn’t
heard of before. It’s like navigating your own private music space – flying
left, right, up and down and once you click on an image of  a band, the
magic unfolds before your eyes.

The music starts to play and it is here where aural happiness takes place. Once you make
that connection with the newly discovered artist, you get to learn about them
through key engaging elements. First, you get a high resolution photo of the
band or artist. Then you get clear facts about the musician as you are
listening to their song via pop up clouds that help you better understand the
musician.

Since we live in a social and connected world, Aweditorium helps you promote your new
discovered artist with friends on Facebook and Twitter. You also get to see
video interviews that are on Youtube about the musician and if you really love
what you’re hearing you can buy the song via iTunes as well as find more
available songs on the app by the musician.

It really is an awesome app and engaging experience for music lovers.

Bo Jeff Jones

Scary Cherry Manager

The best thing about Spotify is the universal accessibility of music to curious users who will see, for example, Scary Cherry and the Bang Bangs pop up in the “related artists” section of a band that are categorized similarly to us. This means that there’s more chance of someone stumbling across our epic tunes and of course, being able to link to them and share them with Facebook friends via the integration of that particular social network helps our listener base grow even more.

The lowdown is essentially this – if you want people to happen across your band, you ensure that you’re on as many music sites as possible. It’s basic marketing, and although Spotify’s a far cry from a potential revenue stream, everyone from the odd Cheeky Bingo player in search of the perfect gaming playlist to record label scouts can track down your works of musical art and offer you some big ones for your trouble.

The Internet’s definitely where the music industry is headed – digital sales are up, physical sales are down, and most people tend to find new tunes by surfing the web or using Spotify, Last.fm or Pandora So it’s up to us and other bands to jump on the, well, the bandwagon, and offer their musical output to anyone who likes to listen to good tunes they may not know about via conventional channels… yet.

Bo Jeff Jones – Scary Cherry Official Manager

I’m in Costa Rica, and I don’t want to come back.

Good new, we just got word from Derek, our favorite mix master.
He had this to say.

killer stuff- really— the recording/production gets better
every time I get tracks from you guys.

lots of stuff going here- but I think the mix has nice
punch, clarity + separation. there may be a few
taste/preference items you want me to tweak…

kill it!

That’s very refreshing to hear. These pro mixer guys hear a lot of songs and aren’t easily impressed.

As much as I don’t want to come back to Texas until I am fluent in spanish and fluent in surfing, it looks like I’ll be hopping on a 60 ton angel in a few days heading back to home base. “First class, petty cash, sittin next to Vannah White, come on”

Tony Coke Bang Bang

It may not seem like we have been up to much lately, but we have even more new songs ready to send to post production! I will leak some into the backstage area of scarycherry.com soon, maybe today even…

These are really deep songs about life and finding your place in society and what does it all mean????
And then there’s a song about a moped.

Long Live Scary Cherry.
Tony Coke Bang Bang